Poussières de ville (2002)

0.0/10 • 52 min • Documentary

Overview

The film opens with a striking image: seven children in rags, aged 7 to 19, crawl out from under a Brazzaville market stall where they have spent the night. Moussa Touré picks up with them there and then continues to film as they go about their business in the city, looking for food and odd jobs. Taking advantage of his closeness to the children, the filmmaker sets out to take each back to his family. But the road back is beset with difficulties that exemplify the state of Congolese society.

Cast

Recommendations

The Class of ‘92

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Night Will Fall

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw

This Place Rules

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty